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jaws in 2 series, an outer row of enlarged, simple teeth, and an inner 
band of minute, close-set ones; a patch of small teeth on vomer. Gill- 
membranes forming a fold across the isthmus. Gillrakers on Urst 
arch 3 -f- 8, short and flat. 
Upper parts of ))ody with linel}^ ctenoid scales, which grow smooth 
in the region behind occiput at base of pectoral and on the breast and 
belly; sides of head with small cycloid scales; interorbital space, snout, 
and jaws smooth. 
Dorsals continuous, the spinous dorsal inserted above base of pec- 
toral. Rays of soft dorsal and anal with free tips; rays of upper part 
of caudal elongate, projecting beyond edge of tin. Pectorals rounded 
posteriori}^, the ventrals pointed. 
Color in spirits yellowish brown, upper parts of bod}?^ and a median 
lateral band dusky, each scale in the dusky areas with a small brownish 
spot; head with dark bands across the occiput, cheeks, and suborbital 
region; chin and throat with blackish spots; dorsal, anal, and caudal 
with pearly spots bounded hj dark color. 
Color in life: Body with a In-oad bluish white lateral band inter- 
rupted b}' small reddish spots; above the band, reddish olive with blue 
spots; l)elow the white band is a parallel, reddish band, rather indefi- 
nite in outline, about li times as wide as the former; below this band 
the body is of a dark-pinkish hue, each scale with a central reddish 
spot; occipital part of head orange j^ellow with a broad, bluish trans- 
verse blotch bordered by black which shades off into purple, the latter 
color extending backward on the body; interorbital space 3"ellowish 
lilac, the yellow strongest on l)and between eyes; a broad j^ellow^ish 
band extending from eye toward maxillary; upper part of e3'e red- 
dish; cheeks brownish, ])ccoming blackish anteriorly; sides of head 
and upper part of snout with narrow bands of indigo blue; throat 
white with brownish black markings; membrane of spinous dorsal 
bluish white, the spines blackish, the dark color spreading to the 
membrane anterior to each spine, upper part of tin narrowly ))ordered 
with white; below the border is a narrow band of brownish black 
which shades into orange on its lower side. Soft dorsal with yellow- 
ish olive spots, the upper parts of rays tipped with orange; membrane 
of upper part of caudal with alternating spots of orange and of pearly 
white, lower part brick red with indistinct white spots; basal part of 
anal j^ellowish orange with white spots, which are bordered with blue; 
outer part of tin with bright bands, the colors of which blend on the 
margins, the outer band white, then l)rownish black, red, white, and 
again red; pectoral with a brownish spot at lower part of base; above 
spot, bluish with reddish reticulations, the hn suffused with pinkish 
shading into brick red on the margin.- Lower part of ventral suffused 
with red, clouded with darker shades, the upper part blackish; inner 
rav with a line of light brick red. 
